Although rainforests make up only two percent of the earth's surface, over half the world's wild plant, animal and insect species live there.
The tropical rainforests, located in a narrow region near the equator, are disappearing so fast that by the year 2000 eighty percent of them may be gone.
The world's tropical rainforests are critical links in the ecological chain of life on the planet.
Each year, twenty-seven million acres of the tropical rainforests are destroyed.
Most accidents, after all, happen around the corner, not in the rainforest.
It's a tragedy that rainforests are being destroyed for the sake of profits.
The destruction of the rainforests affects our environment.
Tropical rainforests are a cause for concern.
We cannot dispense with the rainforests.
Rainforests provide the earth with many benefits.
The sun and a damp climate made the tropical rainforest.
Rainforests should be preserved.
The rainforests are disappearing at the rate of tens of thousands of hectares a day.
Tropical rainforests produce oxygen and consume carbon dioxide.